Vaccines provide tilapia producers with a platform for sustainable growth
Brazilian aquaculture has experienced significant growth in recent decades, particularly in its tilapia industry, which has been built on both cage
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Poor feeding practices such as overfeeding, underfeeding, feeding incorrect pellet sizes, the use of unsuitable or unpalatable diets and the feeding
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Noxious phytoplankton has been implicated in fish kills worldwide with the majority of problems occurring in marine systems.
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Viruses are extremely small agents comprised of DNA or RNA surrounded by protein. Viruses must invade living cells in other organisms to replicate.
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The bacterium, Streptococcus iniae, causes streptococcosis in silver perch. The disease has been rarely reported, although losses in the few outbreaks were sign
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The aquatic fungus, Aphanomyces invadans, causes EUS on silver perch farms located in coastal regions in northeastern NSW and southeastern Queensland
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Diseases of the Australian Freshwater Fish Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) - Part 4
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Diseases of the Australian Freshwater Fish Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) - Part 3
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Diseases of the Australian Freshwater Fish Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) - Part 2
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Diseases of the Australian Freshwater Fish Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) - Part 1
![Food fit for a king (salmon)](/temp/resize/75x75/upload/news/08-2021/cdae6132-61245cf39eda114e74198e75.jpg)
After seven years of research and development, a selection of advanced diets tailor-made for king salmon has finally been produced.
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A new project aims to produce ballan wrasse that are more effective at eating sea lice on salmon farms.
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Plans to create a pure breeding line of the rare and highly prized gold barramundi have been revealed by scientists at James Cook University (JCU).
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Producing tilapia in marine environments offers a number of advantages over traditional freshwater farming of these fish – saltwater
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The use of tags to monitor the behaviour of farmed fish can provide scientists with important information, but also create welfare issues, according to a new st
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Trials of a specialist lighting system have led to a 10 percent increase in tilapia growth rates and a 10 percent reduction in their feed conversion ratio (FCR)
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Commercial catfish feeds are supplemented with a vitamin premix that provides all vitamins in quantities necessary to meet requirements
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This factsheet by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) gives information on what feeds and feed ingredients should be used for channel catfish.
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Researchers are optimistic about the possibility of developing an oral vaccine against francisellosis in tilapia, following promising trials in Thailand.
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Tilapia living in crowded aquaculture ponds or small freshwater reservoirs adapt so well to these stressful environments that they stop growing and reproduce